No post office People’s Bank without post offices!
Support post offices—tell the government to stop Australia Post closing them.
The Australian Citizens Party (ACP) welcomes the Senate regional bank closures inquiry’s recommendation to consider establishing a public bank, including a post office bank.
However, the ACP is extremely concerned th...
Japan killed 17,000 Australians in WWII. Why does Australia accommodate insults from Japanese who deny its atrocities?
On 19 February 1943, 188 military aircraft from Imperial Japan bombed Darwin, killing 243 people and wounding hundreds more. It was the first of a series of attacks on northern Australia, including 63 more attacks on Darwin, and attacks on Wyndham, Broome, Port Hedland, Derby, Katherine, Townsville,...
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese got married last week. He and his wife Jodie Haydon reportedly flew to their honeymoon in economy class, showing he was a family man of the people. Wonderful—we’ll forget for a moment that not only is he a member of Australia’s most exclusive club, th...
IMF unhappy Citizens Party foiled their bankers’ dictatorship
A year after the Citizens Party stopped Treasurer Jim Chalmers from legislating away democratic accountability over the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not happy.
In its latest annual assessment of the Australian economy, the IMF has reiterated that the T...
Westpac serving regional customers? Don’t bank on it
The Citizens Party today rejected Westpac’s announcement of an extended moratorium on regional branch closures until 2030 as a political stunt to shape the narrative when it appears before the House Economics Committee today.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers effusively welcomed the announcement, bu...
Albanese rewards the saboteurs of Australia Post
Since taking office in May 2022, Anthony Albanese has done nothing to stop the gang of saboteurs managing Australia Post from running it into the ground as an essential service; in fact, he has rewarded them lavishly with massive bonuses.
Australia Post is owned by the Australian people, to whom ...
What are the major parties hiding about AUKUS?
The very real limits on Australian democracy were again displayed this week when the major parties voted together to cover up the AUKUS deal from public scrutiny and transparency.
Twelve Greens Senators and two Independents, Senators David Pocock and Tammy Tyrrell, voted for Senator David Shoebri...
Call Coalition Senators—Demand they support a Motion of Disallowance on the Government’s Cash ‘Acceptance’ Regulations
The Citizens Party calls on all concerned citizens, angered by the government facilitating the banks’ agenda to get rid of cash, to call Senators to demand they oppose the Labor Government’s Competition and Consumer (Industry Codes—Cash Acceptance) Regulations 2025.
In October, the Albanese...
Albanese government allows Australia Post CEO Paul Graham to sabotage postal network; ignores government bank solution
The report in the 1 October Daily Mail that Australia Post is establishing cashless post offices is just one of the ways the Albanese government is allowing CEO Paul Graham to sabotage the postal network, the Citizens Party says.
Since Paul Graham was appointed CEO of Australia Post in 2021, repl...
Queenstown betrayal proves the case for a government bank—Citizens Party
There is now no bank on Tasmania’s entire west coast, after Bendigo Bank closed its Queenstown branch and shut off the ATM on Friday.
Queenstown residents and Citizens Party leaders held a ‘funeral’ and ‘wake’ for the branch at the Queenstown Golf Club on Friday afternoon.
Jane...
Bendigo Bank’s mining town blacklist ‘morally corrupt’; Treasurer must intervene
The revelation from The Regional’s Dale Webster that Bendigo Bank has secretly blacklisted mining towns, denying loans to residents because their towns are associated with mining activities, demands immediate government intervention, the Citizens Party says.
Residents of towns where Bendigo Ban...
